Republicans weigh repercussions for Democrats who got in scuffle with ICE agents [View all]
Source: The Hill
Republicans weigh repercussions for Democrats who got in scuffle with ICE agents
by Emily Brooks - 05/14/25 12:37 PM ET
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said House Republicans are weighing what kind of actions to take against three House Democrats who got in a scuffle with law enforcement at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility.
Johnson called the Friday incident “a new low for congressional Democrats.”
“We’re having conversations — we had them this morning in the House Republican conference meeting this morning — about appropriate action that we need to take here to address that inappropriate behavior, the wildly inappropriate behavior,” Johnson said.
New Jersey Democratic Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman, Robert Menendez and LaMonica McIver visited the Delaney Hall detention center Friday. A scuffle with law enforcement ensued, resulting in Newark, N.J., Mayor Ras Baraka (D) being arrested for trespassing.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Fox News on Tuesday called for the three lawmakers to be removed from committees or to be censured, ...
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Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5300064-republicans-democrats-ice-new-jersey-scuffle/
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